Only If…
By: Princess Ashley
Author's Note: Back by popular demand. Another Rubius/Usagi fanfic. Yayness. Anyways, here's the plot. Usagi has been brainwashed by a youma sent by Wise Man to capture her and turn her dark. Of course, she goes against the sailor scouts who are trying to get her back. And during her stay with the Dark Moon family, she falls in love with none other than Rubius, that sexy devil. This is one feeling that has not been induced into her mind by Wise Man. Unfortunately, the worse she gets, the more she starts to realize that something isn't right with her. When she finds out what's happening, who will she chose? Her undestined love Rubius? Or the man that Princess Serenity loved a whole millennium ago, Mamoru?
Chapter 1: Instilled
"Sailor Moon! Dust it already!" Sailor Mars yelled tiredly, once again out of breath. They had been fighting for what seemed like hours against a youma that was, in a word, undefeatable. Every time they tried to dust it, it disappeared, regrouped, and came back again even more powerful than before.
"I've got no more energy. I've dusted it 5 times already. All of my energy is gone." Sailor Moon yelled back. She had bumps and bruises everywhere, her hair buns were falling out, and her knees had scratches all over. She had a tear in her skin beside her eye and the loss of blood was making her groggy.
"VENUS LOVE ME CHAIN!" Venus shot another chain at the monster, successfully cutting off one of its arms. The small victory was short lived. The arm grew back, bigger and seemingly more powerful than ever.
The scouts groaned. "Why won't the thing die?" Chibi-Usa called out, drawing attention to herself. The monster turned to her, and Sailor Moon pulled the little girl behind her, protecting her with her body. The monster advanced towards them.
A dozen roses flashed and stabbed into the youma's legs, temporarily stalling it's approach. Tuxedo Kamen dropped out of a nearby tree, running to Sailor Moon and grabbing Chibi-Usa.
"I'll get her out of here. Are you going to be okay?" Kamen asked, trying not to let a lot of concern for Sailor Moon through.
"Go on, we can take it." Usagi said, not wanting to look at him. It was hard enough getting over him when he seemed to be everywhere. She tried hard to ignore him and look like she wasn't hurt by him breaking up with her. She was tired of crying.
Kamen looked reluctant, but scooped up Chibi-Usa and ran out of sight before Usagi could turn to look after him.
"Sailor Moon! What do we do?" Usagi looked at her fallen scouts. Mercury had been knocked out earlier in the fight. Her body lay by a tree and out of the way. Jupiter was trying to drag the youma down physically, but it threw her against a tree, knocking her out as well. Mars was beaten badly and far too exhausted to try any more of her attacks. Venus was trying her hardest to beat the thing down with her attacks, but she was lacking in energy. Tuxedo Kamen and Chibi-Usa were gone, and Usagi was barely holding on to consciousness.
By the time she had come back to reality, the monster stood right in front of her. Mars and Venus were yelling at her to get out of the way. Usagi's knees gave way, and she fell to the ground, her legs were too weak to hold her. Mars was crying at her to stand up and run, Usagi could see the horror in her and Venus' eyes. They knew the monster was going to kill her.
At the moment, Usagi couldn't think of anything she would rather do than die right here and now. Mamoru was gone, Chibi-Usa hated her, she had let down all of her friends, and she was too weak to even keep her eyes open. She worked up the momentum to stare the creature in the eyes as it starred down at her, looking like it was ready to make its attack. She sighed, glaring slightly at it. It smirked at her, loving the power of having the leader of the infamous sailor scouts on her knees in front of it, practically asking for death. But the creature had a mission, and wasn't going to leave until it was done.
It put its scaly hand on Sailor Moon's head, tilting it back, and Sailor Moon was too weak and emotionally drained to do anything. Mars and Venus were crying in the background, each trying to make it over to their fallen leader before it was too late.
Their last efforts were wasted.
The monster held its other hand up to Sailor Moon's face, and a large ball of energy formed in it's palm. Suddenly, Sailor Moon's body started to glow with green energy. Moon started to splutter and choke. All of her energy was getting sucked out of her body through her mouth. For what seemed like hours, the green ball of energy stopped pulling energy from Moon's body, and black energy appeared in front of the monster's body. And with a sudden force, it launched itself at Sailor Moon, slamming into her body, knocking her over and her eyes finally shut and her chest stopped rising and falling with her breath. Slowly, the color started to drain from her body.
Mars and Venus screamed. "NOO! SAILOR MOON! DON'T DO THIS!" They cried. The youma cackled loudly, before disappearing into a ball of smoke, leaving the conscious scouts to cry over their leader.
"Usagi…..don't go….please……." Mars sobbed, holding Sailor Moon's head to her chest.
Later on...
"What on earth happened!" Ikuko Tsukino yelled, finding her daughter in the ER room at 2:00 in the morning.
Ami and Makoto had been revived earlier after a few minor treatments, and were now sitting in the waiting room, fearing for the life of their friend. Rei and Minako were inconsolable, on their knees on the floor. The cover story had been that they'd been attacked by some gang members, and Usagi had gotten the worst of their abuse.
"When I find out who did this, they'll wish they'd died and gone to HELL!" Kenji Tsukino was seriously trying to get out of the room and back to his house where his rifles were and hunting down the gang members and mangling them one by one. Shingo was detached, sitting in a corner of the room, looking like his spirit didn't even occupy his body.
Mamoru and Chibi-Usa were sitting beside the family members, Chibi-Usa was crying into Mamoru's shirt. Mamoru looked heart-broken, but was holding back his tears as best as he could. He couldn't believe he'd practically/probably left the love of his life to her death. 'I'm so sorry, Usako….' He knew he'd probably never forgive himself.
Inside the ER
Usagi lay in blissful unconsciousness. First perceived to be dead, they had revived her with large bursts of electricity to her body. Her heart was beating, but her skin still was tinted with a sickly pale color. Her pulse was slight, and her stomach only moved slightly and not very frequently. She had an IV in her arm, and a thick long tube down her throat, pumping oxygen into her lungs. Her arms had long casts and one leg was also wrapped in salve.
Beyond the surface, Usagi's mind was running at a mile a minute. In her dreams, she was haunted with images of a dark man in a long black cloak. He sat cross-legged and floating the air. His hood covered his face. She was standing in front of him, her vision was dazed and groggy, but she could make out a technicolor hand reaching for her. Normally she would have been a bit suspicious of a strange man that seemed to be calling for her, but his essence was anything but threatening. He wasn't saying anything, but every fiber of her body could hear a soft called coming from him. She was drawn to him, and his oddly comforting aura.
She could feel her body rising to his call, her feet following his voice, and her heart loving everything uttered from his mind into hers. She reached a hand out to him, her flesh colored hand contrasting with his own dark one. She could feel the darkness radiating off of him, but it only served to sooth her more. How could something that seemed to good be bad? Her fingertips were within reach of him; suddenly, the hand snapped forward and grabbed hers. A scream died on her lips as the darkness that surrounded him consumed her, and not a sound came from her as she was enveloped, falling forward into the waiting arms the dark man.
A chuckle escaped his lips as he held her to him. "Come to me, childe of the moon."
Usagi sat up suddenly. Her eyes were diluted, and she starred around unseeing. Mechanically, she brought a hand to the tube down her throat, and coughing, she pulled the tube out, and she started to breath normally. She pulled the IV out of her arm, not even wincing, and moved her legs over the side of the bed, moving the covers off her body. Clothed in her hospital gown, she stood up, and walked bare footed to the door, opening it, and walking out.
She continued down the hallway. Anyone seeing her would have thought she was sleepwalking, save for the glowing in her eyes. She walked gracefully for once out of the Emergency hallway, and out into the waiting room. Through the windows was a black night outside, not even the streetlights could be seen through the fog. Laying asleep in the waiting room were Ikuko, Kenji, Shingo, and Chibi-Usa. The rest of the scouts had gone home, feeling that the waiting room was no place to relax their restless spirits. Usagi continued on, not even noticing her family asleep around her. She walked out of the front door, the lady at the desk not noticing her, as she was too busy typing on her computer.
The automatic doors opened for Usagi as she walked out and continued down the streets of Tokyo.
After about a half-an-hour of walking, she reached the park where the youma had attacked her and her scouts. She slowed in her walking, still in a dreamlike trance. Only when a light showed extra bright on her did she look anywhere but straight ahead of her. She could see the ship of the dark moon descending down on her, and she could make out a man floating slightly apart from it. She suddenly blinked, recognizing the man.
The man from her dreams.
The light becoming too bright for her, she shielded her eyes from the light. She could hear the quiet chuckling from the man.
As he reached her level, an invisible force once again kept her from running away, beckoning her to him. She sighed in the warmth that came from him.
"Childe, you are mine. Come to me." Her feet listened to him, walking closer to him.
"Who are you?" She asked, not liking the feeling, but her body betrayed her instincts, and continued closer. "What are you doing to me?" Her hand was stretching towards him again, and he raised his own to meet her.
"I, my child, am called…" Her fingers were close enough to his, where he slowly reached and grasped her hand. "…Wise Man."
Usagi's eyes rolled back, and she fainted into his arms once again. He held her to him, disappearing into the black crystal that hovered above both of them. "With you, princess of the moon, this universe will soon be at our mercy."
At the same moment, Mamoru, Chibi-Usa, and the rest of the scouts awoke from their sleep, one word breaking through their lips.
"Usagi!"
To be Continued.